Decision Making in Health Care: Theory, Psychology, and Applications

by Edited by Gretchen B. Chapman , Frank A. Sonnenberg

• ISBN13: 9780521641593
• ISBN10: 0521641594
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Decision making is a crucial element in the field of medicine. The physician has to determine what is wrong with the patient and recommend treatment, while the patient has to decide whether or not to seek medical care, and go along with the treatment recommended by the physician. Health policy makers and health insurers have to decide what to promote, what to discourage, and what to pay for. Together, these decisions determine the quality of health care that is provided. Decision Making in Health Care is an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of the field of medical decision making - a rapidly expanding field that includes quantitative theoretical tools for modeling decisions, psychological research on how decisions are actually made, and applied research on how physician and patient decision making can be improved.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part I: Introduction and Theory
Introduction	3	(17)
Gretchen B. Chapman
Frank A. Sonnenberg
Decision Modeling Techniques	20	(45)
Mark S. Roberts
Frank A. Sonnenberg
Utility Assessment under Expected Utility and Rank-Dependent Utility Assumptions	65	(45)
John M. Miyamoto
Evidence-Based Medicine: A Quantitative Approach to Decision Making	110	(35)
John P. A. Ioannidis
Joseph Lau
Part II: Health Policy and Economics
Linking Modeling with Health Policy Formation and Implementation	145	(13)
David B. Matchar
Greg P. Samsa
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis	158	(25)
Louise B. Russell
Part III: Psychology of Medical Decision Making
Cognitive Processes and Biases in Medical Decision Making	183	(28)
Gretchen B. Chapman
Arthur S. Elstein
Physician Judgments of Uncertainity	211	(42)
Neal V. Dawson
Bioethics and Medical Decision Making: What Can They Learn from Each Other?	253	(14)
Joshua Cohen
David Asch
Peter Ubel
Team Medical Decision Making	267	(22)
Caryn Christensen
Ann S. Abbott
Part IV: Applications
Assessing Patients' Preferences	289	(24)
Anne M. Stiggelbout
Applying Utility Assessment at the Bedside	313	(21)
Mary Kane Goldstein
Joel Tsevat
Advances in Presenting Health Information to Patients	334	(28)
Holly Briigge Jimison
Paul Phillip Sher
Computer-Assisted Clinical Decision Support	362	(24)
Antoine Geissbuhler
Randolph A. Miller
Opportunities for Applying Psychological Theory to Improve Medical Decision Making: Two Case Histories	386	(37)
Robert M. Hamm
Dewey C. Scheid
Wally R. Smith
Thomas G. Tape
Index	423